Qualifying to be a Certified Scrum Trainer is a long and sometimes arduous process. As part of that process,candidates seek out endorsements and mentors. The past year I’ve seen the number of requests go up, and I wanted to make my expectations explicit. As you read these notes, ...continue reading

John Miller recently challenged some of us to summarize Agile for the K-12 crowd. I wound up writing a tweet I could share with my nine year old: “Focus on the customer. Build amazing quality stuff. Release frequently. Always improving. Two heads are better than one.” MJ and ...continue reading

Last year I created a short session – Learning Scrum Through Games – to help people explore the basics of Scrum in a one hour format. This year I rewrote it and took it to both Agile Tour Toronto and Ottawa. We learned a number of interesting things from both ...continue reading